Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add instructions/databiosphere/consent/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DataBiosphere/consentWhat it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00420 | $0.00420 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00210 | $0.00210 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00084 | $0.00084 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00042 | $0.00042 |
Grade A, and why
consent copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Copilot Instructions for Consent
These instructions apply to code suggestions and PR review in this repository.
Architecture and Boundaries
- Keep the existing Dropwizard + Guice + JDBI architecture.
- Preserve
Resource -> Service -> DAOseparation. - Prefer incremental changes to broad rewrites.
- Reuse existing auth and error handling patterns (
@RolesAllowed,Resource.createExceptionResponse,org.broadinstitute.consent.http.mappersExceptionMappers).
API and Auth Rules
- Auth boundary is route-based:
- Paths under
/apiare authenticated through the proxy Auth section and include OAUTH-decorated request information. - Non-
/apipaths are unauthenticated and must not assume OAUTH context.
- Paths under
- Put authenticated endpoints under
/api. - Keep public API behavior backward compatible unless explicitly approved.
- If API contracts change, update OpenAPI spec in
src/main/resources/assets/api-docs.yaml.
Quality and Performance Expectations
- Run Spotless formatting for changed files.
- Resolve SonarQube issues in touched code; do not introduce new blocker/critical issues.
- For large DB-backed results, prefer pagination/streaming/projections and avoid unbounded in-memory collections.
- For PostgreSQL DAO queries that span multiple datasets or act on multiple tables, prefer CTEs (
WITH) when they simplify logic and reduce repeated work. - Favor Java records for new immutable DTO/view models when framework/persistence mapping allows.
Testing and Test Data
- Add or update tests for behavior changes in
src/test/java. - Use synthetic test data only; do not include real or realistic PII, tokens, or secrets.
- Do not use Mockito lenient stubbing (
lenient()); prefer strict stubbing and remove unused/mismatched stubs.
Source of Truth
docs/API_GUIDELINES.mddocs/ARCHITECTURE.mddocs/ONBOARDING.mddocs/ai/prompts/CONTRIBUTING.md
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago First seen · 43 lines · 420 tokens per session scan A 4a4a3a303044
consent copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DataBiosphere/consent (11 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 420 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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